300 is a success, but there's liberals and a surprise dissenter who don't like it
300, the new movie adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novel from the late 1990s, has scored a remarkable success at the box office with at least 70 million dollars. I wonder if it has anything to do with Miller's patriotic standings. I have no idea, but that said, there are those who don't seem to think it's great for political reasons. For example, as Allahpundit at Hot Air finds, a film writer for Slate has taken the opportunity to turn it all into a red-and-blue state affair. I guess that's why I'll have to think about going to see it when I have the chance too then, eh?
Hysterical liberal buffoons in the US aren't the only ones who seem to have a problem with it, because it seems to represent what they dislike. There's also - wouldn't you know it - Iran's tyrant Ahmedinejad and his gang who don't like it either (also via Hot Air):
Seeing this news, I'd have to conclude that's what makes this film a winner. Because it's exactly what the nutroots can't stand! Ha ha!
Update: as milblogger John Noonan notes, the battle of Thermopylae took place at least a century before Mohammed was born.
Update 2: Dr. Rusty Shackleford at the Jawa Report and Bryan at Hot Air have both written reviews.
Update 3: it's tops at the box office for the second week in a row!
Hysterical liberal buffoons in the US aren't the only ones who seem to have a problem with it, because it seems to represent what they dislike. There's also - wouldn't you know it - Iran's tyrant Ahmedinejad and his gang who don't like it either (also via Hot Air):
Iran on Monday strongly condemned the US film company Warner Bros. over the allegedly “anti-Iranian” blockbuster film 300. Javad Shamqadri, art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told Fars news agency that the film was an insult to Persian culture and in line with the American “psychological war” against Iran…Wow, they still think of themselves as Persians? I don't know if the Persians by the time of Sparta were still the original inhabitants, but isn't that something, Iran's current tyrannical rulers take this amazing movie as an insult to their Islamic "pride", and may confuse the original Persians with today's Iranian population, which has long since stopped calling itself Persia. (Update: Memri TV and Hot Air have just posted a recording of how the Iranians are really spiralling into madness with so-called reviews on Iranian television.)
Iran’s has called foul over what it calls “deviation of history” but also because the Persians in the film were shown as “ugly and violent creatures rather than human beings.”[…]
The news network Khabar organised a special programme in which the film was evaluated from several angles by film critics who argued that the film’s alleged efforts to expose Persians as violent was a US political plot implemented through Hollywood and the Warner Bros. company.
Seeing this news, I'd have to conclude that's what makes this film a winner. Because it's exactly what the nutroots can't stand! Ha ha!
Update: as milblogger John Noonan notes, the battle of Thermopylae took place at least a century before Mohammed was born.
Update 2: Dr. Rusty Shackleford at the Jawa Report and Bryan at Hot Air have both written reviews.
Update 3: it's tops at the box office for the second week in a row!
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